diff --git a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
index 277b6ee1..dc41c54c 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
@@ -123,6 +123,38 @@ public async Task ASnapshotBeforeAVerbatimStringOpeningOnAnEscapedQuoteIsStillFo
     const string q3 = "\"\"\"";
     const string q4 = "\"\"\"\"";
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A hint that has gone stale and now points into another member. The recorded line is tried
+    /// first so two snapshots in one member stay apart, but it is only evidence while it is still
+    /// inside that member - and a declaration between the two says it is not. Trying it anyway
+    /// rewrote the other test's identical snapshot and left this one as it was.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task AStaleHintDoesNotReachIntoTheNextMember()
+    {
+        var source =
+            "class Tests\n" +
+            "{\n" +
+            "    async Task First()\n" +
+            "    {\n" +
+            "        await Snapshot(\"dup\");\n" +
+            "    }\n" +
+            "\n" +
+            "    async Task Second()\n" +
+            "    {\n" +
+            "        await Snapshot(\"dup\");\n" +
+            "    }\n" +
+            "}";
+
+        // Line 10 is Second's snapshot; the patch came from First
+        var status = TryApply(source, 10, InlinePatchMode.Set, "\"dup\"", "new", out var newSource, out _, memberName: "First");
+
+        await Assert.That(status).IsEqualTo(PatchStatus.Applied);
+        var patched = newSource.Split('\n');
+        await Assert.That(patched[4]).Contains("\"new\"");
+        await Assert.That(patched[9]).Contains("\"dup\"");
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// A CRLF file holding a literal whose own lines are LF. The anchor is normalised to the
     /// file's dominant ending before the search, which is right for writing and wrong for
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
index 449cd743..cb99189d 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
@@ -604,7 +604,14 @@ static bool TryFindCall(
         lineHint = Clamp(lineHint, lineCount);
         var floor = memberLine is null ? 1 : Clamp(memberLine.Value, lineCount);
         var origin = memberLine is null ? lineHint : floor;
-        if (lineHint >= floor)
+        // The recorded line is tried first so that two snapshots in one member stay apart. It is
+        // only evidence about this member while it is still inside it, though, and a declaration
+        // between the two says it is not: the hint went stale, something above it moved, and it
+        // now points into the test next door. Trying it anyway rewrote that test's snapshot and
+        // left this one alone, which is the failure the member name exists to prevent
+        if (lineHint >= floor &&
+            (memberLine is null ||
+             !DeclarationBetween(source, scan, lineStarts, floor, lineHint)))
         {
             foreach (var call in CallsOnLine(source, scan, lineStarts, lineHint, names, byPrefix))
             {
@@ -642,6 +649,45 @@ static bool TryFindCall(
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Whether a declaration sits after <paramref name="afterLine"/> and at or before
+    /// <paramref name="uptoLine"/>. Cheap because it only ever runs over the span between a
+    /// member's declaration and the recorded line.
+    /// </summary>
+    static bool DeclarationBetween(string source, SourceScan scan, List<int> lineStarts, int afterLine, int uptoLine)
+    {
+        if (uptoLine <= afterLine ||
+            afterLine >= lineStarts.Count)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        var start = lineStarts[afterLine];
+        var end = uptoLine < lineStarts.Count ? lineStarts[uptoLine] : source.Length;
+        for (var index = start; index < end; index++)
+        {
+            if (!scan.IsIdentifierChar(source[index]) ||
+                !scan.IsCode(index) ||
+                !StartsToken(source, scan, index))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (scan.IsDeclaration(index))
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            while (index + 1 < end &&
+                   scan.IsIdentifierChar(source[index + 1]))
+            {
+                index++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     static int Clamp(int line, int lineCount) =>
         Math.Min(Math.Max(line, 1), lineCount);